Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last apparently tired" [April 9]. Phog is undeniably outspoken and loquacious, but his forceful hammering has been responsible for, among other things, the presence of basketball on the Olympic program, the N.C.A.A. basketball tourney, and for putting the spotlight on basketball gambling long before anyone else recognized the evil, let alone had the courage to publicize it. STEWART NEWLIN Publisher The Wellington Daily News Wellington. Kans...
...just after dusk, and 46 skull-capped youngsters stood at their evening prayers in the synagogue of the Shafrir village farm school just outside Tel Aviv. They prayed: "If any design evil against me, speedily make their counsel of no effect and frustrate their designs. Do it for the sake...
...room and spend about an hour talking to each other. But the room is in hell, and in their conversation each of them slowly bares his soul. The play has no further plot than this process of self-discovery, and it might be boring if, in revealing the evil of his characters, Sartre did not manage to make statements on a great number of subjects ranging from love to death to the quality of human courage. As it stands, however, the play is frequently exciting and sometimes almost terrifying...
...secret that what he is leaving is life-but then is not life what he has always really feared? Is not death what he has always really wanted? In the allegory of the final battle, the sergeant cruelly discovers that a man who cannot live cannot die, that the evil men see in the world might turn to good if men would only see it in themselves, that only fear can cast out love...
...ability and intelligence to know a good life from a bad, and to choose always and everywhere the best that the conditions allow; . . . one who shall teach him how thus to know what beauty mingled with poverty or riches, in union with what state of soul, will work evil or good; what will be the effect of high birth or low birth, private station or governing station, strength or weakness, cleverness or dullness in learning, and all such qualities of the soul natural or acquired-what effects they will have when commingled together; so that it will be possible...